Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quotes

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.

Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Let any man show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark and t will fly at his heels:
Let him fearlessly face it, t will leave him alone:
But t will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.

Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one
May hope to achieve it before life is done;
But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes
Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows
A harvest of barren regrets.

Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Those true eyes
Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise
The sweet soul shining through them.

Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The ages roll
Forward; and forward with them draw my soul
Into Times infinite sea.
And to be glad or sad I care no more;
But to have done and to have been before
I cease to do and be!

Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

The world is filled with folly and sin,
And Love must cling, where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
But one is n't loved every day.